Correct way to install metal valve stems?
I finally got around to installing a new Hawkshead TPMS a few weeks ago just days before we left for a 17 day 800 mile camping trip. We are using Hawkhead T-valves which allow air to be added without...
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j-d wrote:
Perhaps indirectly related, the custom brass stems for motorhome wheels (the ones form TireMan and Borg, there may be others) install with the nut on the inside. They want Blue Loctite on the nut threads. I don't think it's for sealing, but because once the tire is mounted no way to tighten the nut. Were it to work loose, that is. Can be done when nut is on the outside. My take on the Loctite is that it prevents the nut working loose (as opposed to sealing the threads against an air leak).
I read about using Loctite on one website (red I assume?). The tire shop simply tightened the 2nd nut with a socket wrench. I would have used a thin spanner to hold the first one from rotating.
The more I think about all this, I think I will get the tire shop to take one tire off a rim so I can look at it closely myself and decide what to do. They said there'd be no charge anyway. The T-valves are supposed to fit standard 0.625" & 0.453" holes. Maybe the tire shop didn't take the time and care to try and get the grommet in place.
